RE: Tekram DC390U3W & pws433

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 01:45 AM 10/3/01, Christopher C. Chimelis. 
Where you stated:

> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Hoover, Tony wrote:
>
> > Yes, the TekRam DC390UW is based on the Symbios (LSI) 53C875.  The DC390U3W
> > is based on the Symbios (LSI) 53C1010.  The DC390UW will function as a boot
> > device in either SRM or AlphaBIOS.  I have not tried the 53C1010 devices
> > with SRM so I can't vouch for it's bootability.  Worst case: you may 
> have to
> > boot from a floppy diskette or IDE attached hard drive.
>
> There are only two machines that use 53c1010-based chipsets for booting
> that I know of (API's CS20 and Compaq's DS20L), so I doubt that SRMs for
> any other machines would recognise the card to boot from.  In fact, the
> code to do so wasn't even there in Compaq's 5.9 SRM sources, so I doubt
> any system that uses a version prior to 5.9 will recognise the card in SRM
> to boot from.
We have no issues with booting in SRM and Linux from an Intraserver of LSI 
53C1010 card.
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